Matt is a pastor, businessman, theology student, & massive geek.

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  • Browsershots.org

    Browsershots.org. “an open-source system for distributed automatic production of browser screenshots.” I’ve been using Browsercam.com to get automatic screenshots of my Web sites in nearly all the different browsers. This appears to be a free approximation of that service. It does not offer as many platform/browser combinations as Browsercam however, so, while it is cheap-as-free,…

  • EIT Blogs

    A standard template for all blogs for Iowa State University Extension CMS: MovableType 3.16 Under the hood: XHTML 1.0 Trans, CSS2

  • Designing for ads

    Asterisk has a helpful article with some thoughts to keep in mind when designing a site that will incorporate advertisements. Fortunately, I very very rarely have to deal with this. I primarily design for higher education Web sites, in which (IMHO) advertising is completely inappropriate. If I’m not doing that, I’m usually doing smaller scale…

  • Buzzle.com on Search Engine Optimization

    There are some pretty good SEO suggestions in a recent article on SEO by Buzzle.com Essentially it’s the same old tips: Update content regularly Relevant inbound links Click through rates etc.. With some interesting new tips (recent developments/stuff I haven’t heard before. Notably: How many years you have registered your domain name for Spam tactics…

  • Web Design Axioms

    Over the last 5.5 years as a Web developer, I have picked up several “axioms” that have made my job easier. Today I was reminded of two of them while helping a friend work through some layout issues. Josh Cramer’s First Rule Of Web Design: “It only does what you tell it to do.” Josh…

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